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Pretty disappointing that it's a rebrand. I also have a 7970M in an M17x that I regularly overclock past 900Mhz for gaming. Nvidia is definitely more interesting in the high-end mobile space, but you always pay quite the premium. Reply

I thought it was already established that this would be a rebrand. At least I didn't expect new chips. What I was hoping for was some better power characteristics that would allow faster clock speeds (10+% at least). Well, I don't game on laptops, so personally, I couldn't care less.Reply

AFAIK it was never officially an exclusive; the only issue was that the 680MX's power consumption was too high for even the portable desktop class laptops. If anyone else wanted to make an AIO with an ultra high end gpu they could've used the 680MX too.Reply

Because they would not look as good? But probably also because that card will cost several hundred more than the 8970M. The 680M will likely cost more as well, judging by past high end laptop card prices.Reply

Whats with this "moving forward leaping backward"? What's up with your rebrands AMD? Why is the 88xx series weaker than the 78xx series (which has 800mhz core clock and same number of shaders). Why is the 89xx series more than twice as fast as the 88xx series. The 77xx series has 512 shaders at speeds of 575-675 mhz and is going to perform very comparably to 384 shaders at 650-850mhz. There is little to no performance gain here.

Nvidia is doing a fairly good complete revamp of their line. 750m now at speeds of 967mhz+ (vs 835 for 650m), 760m looks like a 768 core part. 780m looks to be full GK104 at faster ram speeds. C'mon AMD.Reply